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RatingsFive scores with Fulham final
Five’s live coverage of the UEFA Europa League final gave the channel a 20.5% share between 9pm and 10pm last night, edging out ITV1’s Midsomer Murders and trouncing the first episode of BBC1’s Junior Apprentice.
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RatingsDowning St drama draws 10m to BBC1
BBC1’s live coverage of the handover at number 10 was watched by a peak of almost 10m last night as the channel dropped EastEnders and Holby City to follow events as they unfolded.
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RatingsMore than 9m mourn Corrie's Blanche
The funeral of one of Coronation Street’s best loved characters delivered more than 9m viewers to ITV1 last night.
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RatingsMoyles' Radio 1 doc stutters
Chris Moyles proved he should stick to radio after his documentary on Radio 1 DJ’s performed poorly for BBC2 last night.
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RatingsHIGNFY election show amuses 4.7m
An election special of Have I Got News For You pulled in 4.7m (20.2% share) on Friday night.
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RatingsGot Talent spin-off beats Prisoner... again
Britain’s Got Talent continued to dominate the Saturday night schedule, with ITV2 sister show Britain’s Got More Talent winning a bigger audience than ITV1’s The Prisoner for the second week in a row.
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RatingsC4 beats ITV on election night
Channel 4’s sideways glance at election night proved a winning formula, with early figures suggesting it beat ITV1’s coverage of polling last night.
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RatingsOddie fails to take flight for BBC2
BBC2’s new Bill Oddie series failed to make much of an impact last night, but the channel performed better than usual opposite the election coverage from 10pm.
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RatingsElection coverage draws 6.7m
As the UK woke up this morning to a hung Parliament, early figures indicate that around 6.7m viewers followed last night’s election coverage - with BBC1 winning the biggest audience.
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RatingsMidsomer's ghostly tale spooks the opposition
Spooky goings-on in Midsomer Murders lured 5.4m (23%) to ITV1 last night, once again helping the dependable Tom Barnaby to arrest the opposition.
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RatingsStrike Back outguns American Idol
Sky 1’s action drama Chris Ryan’s Strike Back blasted off with 398,400 viewers (1.7%) at 9pm last night, edging out ITV2’s American Idol – but BBC4 grabbed the spoils from 10pm.
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RatingsMore4 finds 190,000 with Erasing David
Erasing David, a new documentary feature about Britain’s surveillance culture, performed strongly for More4 last night.
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RatingsLuther debut arrests 5.76m
BBC1’s gritty new drama Luther, starring The Wire’s Idris Elba, captured more than 5.7m viewers last night.
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RatingsSnooker final peaks at 3.6m
The final of the World Snooker championships netted a peak audience of 3.6m on BBC2 last night.
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RatingsLewis returns with 7m
The new series of Lewis delivered more than 7m viewers to ITV1 on Sunday night.
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RatingsITV2 beats ITV1 with Got Talent
Britain’s Got Talent continued to steamroll the opposition on Saturday night, with an ITV2 spin-off of the talent show even beating The Prisoner on ITV1.
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RatingsChiles bows out with 5m
Adrian Chiles’ final edition of The One Show drew more than 5m viewers to BBC1 on Friday night – its highest ratings of the month.
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RatingsFootball on Five hits five-year high
Five recorded its biggest rated audience for a football match in five years last night.
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RatingsBBC election debate pulls 8.4m
The final leaders’ debate was watched by 8.4m (32.4%) across BBC1, BBC News, BBC HD and Sky News last night.
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RatingsBrown's 'bigotgate' boosts Newsnight
Gordon Brown’s verbal gaffe yesterday helped Newsnight buck a trend of dwindling interest in current affairs shows during the election campaign.